

development tools (debugger, input completion, automatic syntax coloring).

front end with GUI that allows the creation of Notebooks.It is written in Mathematica and C programming languages. The latest stable release of Mathematica is Mathematica 8.0.4 (October 24, 2011). The first public release was in June 23, 1988. Mathematica was created by Stephen Wolfram and is developed by Wolfram Research of Champaign, Illinois. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. + +: small library, pure Python, very functional, extensible, large community. SymPy Live uses Google App Engine as computational backend. It is a simple web shell that looks similar to iSymPy under the standard Python interpreter. The site was developed specifically for SymPy. Pyglet, Matplotlib -> 2d and 3d plotting.

SymPy is entirely written in Python and does not require any external libraries, but various programs that can extend its capabilites can be installed:
